Dev-In-Town: Ultimate Data Visualization by Walter Wong
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The document discusses Walter Wong's presentation on ultimate data visualization with WPF. The presentation covered WPF controls, interoperability between WPF and WinForms, integrating Workflow Foundation, and using XML Paper Specification documents. It provided demos of Visual Studio and Expression Blend controls, third party controls, WPF interoperability, and viewing XPS documents. Resources for Walter Wong's blog and Pagecast account were also listed.
Dev-In-Town: Ultimate Data Visualization by Walter Wong
- 1. Ultimate Data Visualization Experience with WPF Walter Wong MVP (Visual Developer – Security) Email - Walter_wws@hotmail.com Blog - http://spaces.live.com/walterwws Twitter – http://www.twitter.com/walterw Pageflakes – http://www.pageflakes.com/walterw 27th June 2009
- 2. DEMO What is Windows Presentation Foundation 2
- 3. Agenda • WPF Controls • WPF Interoperability • Workflow Foundation Integration • XML Paper Specification (XPS) documents 3
- 4. WPF Controls • Visual Studio’s Control is for Developers – Boring – Using XAML to customize the control • Expression Blend’s Controls is for Designer – Interactive – Using wizard to customize the control 4
- 6. DEMO Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend 2 6
- 7. DEMO Kevin Moore’s WPF Bag-O-Trick Controls 7
- 8. WPF Interoperability • Are you going to re-write the whole application in WPF? • Calculate the ROI before implement WPF • Fortunately WPF provide multiple ways of Interoperability 8
- 9. WPF Interoperability • Interoperability choices – Windows Form – Microsoft Office Suite • 2 ways of interoperability – WPF controls in WinForm application – WinForm controls in WPF application 9
- 10. DEMO WPF Interoperability 10
- 11. XPS Documents • XML Paper Specification (XPS) • Is a subset of XAML • Provide API to assist users in document workflow – Authoring – Viewing – Storing 11
- 12. Benefits of using XPS • Microsoft Office’s users can save the documents as XPS • Visual Studio provide the API to save the Word documents in XPS format • Blend and Visual Studio provide the XPS Viewer control (known as “Document Viewer”) for developers • Document Viewer is ReadOnly 12
- 13. DEMO XPS Document 13
- 14. Conclusion • Tones of WPF controls to enrich your application development experience • Provide a seamless path to upgrade your existing WinForm application • Creative way to visualize your workflow • Using XPS API to visualize your documents 14
- 17. Walter Wong MVP (Visual Developer – Security) Email - Walter_wws@hotmail.com Blog - http://spaces.live.com/walterwws Twitter – http://www.twitter.com/walterw Pageflakes – http://www.pageflakes.com/walterw 17